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13:30 on a Wednesday afternoon in late February 2018. Typical midday demand is apron 33 GW, we are up at 48 GW currently. Plenty to spare tho looking at the gas turbine usage. (CCGT) All good currently. Overnight that demand will intensify and put a bit of strain on the Network I would think.

Stream at the golf course in Leven starting to freeze over as it leads into the Forth. Snow on the beach some rough seas! Wont be much football getting played here anytime soon (mind you East Fife can't really play football...PUNT!) Letham Glen in Leven looking majestic

me too mate...

For wind yes, not for snow as far as I know

-3 here, biting cold wind, never got my lightning cross on the radar gutted, wanted a screen grab, never mind ? not as much snaw as I would have hoped for waking up but still brilliant ? yellow snaw warning on my patio ?

I'm sitting lamppost watching and I'm so impressed so far, outbreaks of blizzard like conditions, short breaks with gusting winds blowing the polystyrene like snow up and about, thundersnaw....unbelievable Jeff, I'm staying up until the lighting X appears o the radar map just for my own sanity! Brilliant ?

Lightning!!!! Thundersnaw!!!!!

some thundersnaw approaching east anglia A think a few of us will see/hear some tomorrow

These "scientist" never heard of a triple whammy eddy heat flux pulverising SSW before? Useless I tell thee

Temp update.... .........

Fife cooncil would still try and keep the schools open even if that was a direct hit, bunch of miserable B£$%&*@ EDIT! they have just announced the closures in Fife, must have seen the torpedo

Bloody marvellous ? I've also got a 1.5cm snow drift up against the 2 wall pillars, ultra zoom required ?

Hammering it down here! SNAAAWWWWW! Probably got about 2cm from today already so this will be a nice top up ?

No chance of snow/settling snow here at the moment.

Guernsey 2013, more of the same this time, lucky buggers!!

Miss from Euro 4 by about 50 miles? Not bad!

They got this from the 2013 Chanel streamer. WOW!

They will get here, and when they do..... Stunning pictures by the way!

This is all a bit mental

Il see your auld fiat 500 snaw smasher and raise you a disco plow ? thinking of panic buying this along with my bread and milk ?

Knocker just posted this in the short range thread. Looking primed all over east coast UK

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Just to emphisise the point I made earlier regarding strat-trop coupling

Regarding the Low being discussed for some time now. 70hpa 250 hpa 500hpa 700hpa 850hpa sea level approx These screen shots are for the 3rd of March. For me I think the layers of the atmosphere are being modelled as coupled so well, that the low is moving on track with the winds to the north of the overall pattern. I'm imagining it as a really tall funnel of a low pressure system, rather like a tornado (although not as ferocious obviously) that is being side swiped by the East to West winds as it moves Northward. I'm probably bonkers and talking nonsense but its a theory all the same. The earth Null images are based on the GFS output also so obviously there will be differences with regard UKMO / ECM etc.

Anybody fancy an igloo building comp? Best one by the end of the week gets to post theirs on the MOD during the weekend southern slush fest